Quotes About Awareness

People aren't helpless because they want to be helpless. People are helpless because it's all they know.

People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.

Real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention...and all art is love, because all art is about looking closely

et surtout mon corps aussi bien que mon âme, gardez-vous de vous croiser les bras en l'attitude stérile du spectateur, car la vie n'est pas un spectacle, car une mer de douleurs n'est pas un proscenium, car un homme qui crie n'est pas un ours qui danse.

nous savoir ce coeur lourd . . .

Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.

Prospero, you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (Lied about the world, lied about me) That you have ended by imposing on me An image of myself. Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior, That s the way you have forced me to see myself I detest that image! What's more, it's a lie! But now I know you, you old cancer, And I know myself as well.

Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.

And above all, my body as well as my soul, beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear….

Could you imagine a world where everyone is 'Blind'? i'm thinking we all need to try and see the world from the view of a blind man... then and only then, will the color of ones skin be completely irrelevant..

Anyone with two eyes and a pair of binoculars could see that you stopped going inside soon after you moved to town.)

How can one even imagine us getting back to a place where we know the names of the trees we walk by every single day? A place where "a bird" navigating a dewy meadow is transformed into something more specific, something we can hold onto by feeling its name on our tongues: brown thrasher. Or that "big tree": catalpa. Maybe what we can do when we feel overwhelmed is to start small. Start with what we have loved as kids and see where that leads us.

Aren't we the ones who say, "My"? We exist from Birth till we Die. Aren't we the ego, 'I'? Let's find out "Who am I?"

As long as I Do Not Realize WHO I AM NOT, I will Never Realize WHO I AM.

Do you know who you truly are? Or are you from the Truth afar? If the Truth you must find... first, you must Transcend the Mind.

Either we can be Conscious of the Now, or we can be grazing like a cow... chewing thoughts one by one, losing Life till it is done.

Every Pleasure ends in Pain... Loss follows every Gain. The ONLY way to Eternal Bliss is Self-Realization.

Experience God in the Mountains, then in the Butterflies, Trees and the Sea. Then slowly you will Realize, that God is in You & Me!

First, we must Experience God in everything Beautiful. Then, we will see Everything Beautiful as God.

Only one percent of the world is visually blind, but 99 percent of the world is Spiritually blind.

People who don't understand want to know, but people who know, don't want to understand.

The mind is a rascal monkey, Always jumping from thought to thought. It makes us fear the future, And drags us to a past that we forgot.

The now is Peaceful and Blissful, But how easily we lose our Joy, We slip into Yesterday and Tomorrow, Looking for another Toy!

We are nothing! When will we realize that the Earth itself is like one grain of sand on the vast beach of Creation?